Jeremiah 38:17

New American Bible - revised edition

Jeremiah then said to Zedekiah: “Thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel: If you will only surrender to the princes of Babylon’s king, you shall save your life; this city shall not be destroyed by fire, and you and your household shall live.

Cross References

Genesis 12:13

Please say, therefore, that you are my sister, so that I may fare well on your account and my life may be spared for your sake.”

2 Kings 24:12

Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, together with his mother, his ministers, officers, and functionaries, surrendered to the king of Babylon, who, in the eighth year of his reign, took him captive.

2 Kings 25:27

In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin, king of Judah, on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the inaugural year of his own reign, raised up Jehoiachin, king of Judah, from prison.

1 Chronicles 17:24

that your name, Lord of hosts, God of Israel, may be great and abide forever, while the house of your servant is established in your presence.

Ezra 9:4

Around me gathered all who were in dread of the sentence of the God of Israel on the apostasy of the exiles, while I remained devastated until the evening sacrifice.

Job 23:13

But once he decides, who can contradict him? What he desires, that he does.

Psalm 80:14

The boar from the forest strips the vine; the beast of the field feeds upon it.

Psalm 80:7

You have left us to be fought over by our neighbors; our enemies deride us.

Jeremiah 27:12

To Zedekiah, king of Judah, I spoke the same words: Bend your necks to the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, so that you may live.

Jeremiah 27:17

Do not listen to them! Serve the king of Babylon that you may live. Why should this city become rubble?

Jeremiah 27:8

Meanwhile, the nation or the kingdom that will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, or bend its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with sword, famine, and pestilence—oracle of the Lord—until I finish them by his hand.

Jeremiah 38:2

Thus says the Lord: Those who remain in this city shall die by means of the sword, starvation, and disease; but those who go out to the Chaldeans shall live. Their lives shall be spared them as spoils of war that they may live.

Jeremiah 39:3

All the princes of the king of Babylon came and took their seats at the middle gate: Nergal-sharezer of Simmagir, a chief officer; Nebushazban, a high dignitary; and all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.

Jeremiah 40:9

Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, swore an oath to them and their men: “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Stay in the land and serve the king of Babylon, so that everything may go well with you.

Jeremiah 44:7

Now thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why inflict so great an evil upon yourselves, cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, not leaving yourselves even a remnant?

Ezekiel 8:4

There I saw the glory of the God of Israel, like the vision I had seen in the plain.

Amos 5:27

As I exile you beyond Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.